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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2011
Applicant:
Keiji Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Keiji Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20012 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01);
Abstract
An object is to improve noise reduction. Provided are an image-capturing-mode selecting portion () that selects one image-capturing mode from a plurality of image-capturing modes; and a noise-reduction processing portion () that performs noise-reduction processing for input image signals by employing, in the case in which the image-capturing mode selected by the image-capturing-mode selecting portion () is a specific image-capturing mode, an applied noise model in which a noise model employed for a predetermined signal-value region differs from a reference noise model determined on the basis of properties of an image-acquisition element.